Maximise window default

[David Beasley]

I am a novice computer user and am having trouble which will probably be laughably simple to folks who have been around computers for a while, but this is really bugging me.
When I open most of my programs they willappear in a less than full screen view.
I have gone to control panel and then folder options and selected " remember each folders view settings box" but each time I close and reopen a file I have to click on the maximise box in the upper right corner of the screen or select maximise on the top toolbar again.
Open My Documents and it is part screen, the same is true for just about everything else.
Is there a simple way to select a default to open all screens in full view?

[mick n]

David, IIRC you have to "size" each window to full screen size.

When you open for example, "MY documents" move the mouse pointer to the edges of the window and the mouse pointer will change to 2 arrows, while the arrows are visible left click the edge of the window and "drag" it to size it to full screen. Do this for both horizontal and vertical to make it full screen.

Repeat this for each of the windows you open that do not open in full size. Windows "should" remember the size that has been set, full screen in your case.

Mick.

[chrisinthesun20]

Mick is quite correct that you have to resize each window, however there are a few little "quirks" attached to this process.

If you resize a window by doing maximize, then closing the window, in most cases this will NOT result in the window size being saved.

Also, if you have two windows open from the same program (say two IE windows), resize one, then close it, it is not the size of that window that remembered, but the size of the LAST window to be closed.

In the case of getting Windows to remember the size of an IE window, its best to follow these guidelines:

1. make sure you only have ONE IE window open, and nothing else.

2. Rezise the window by clicking and dragging to get it to the desired size. (not by doing maximize).

3. Close the window by do "file....Close" from the dropdown menu, rather than by clicking the "X".

4. Now, when you open a new explorer window, it SHOULD come up the same size and position as the previous window.

XP (and Windows in general) is very quirky about remembering window sizes, so its not a stupid question!

Just remember that it is just as easy to set a new window size by accident as it is to set on on purpose - so you WILL find that you suddenly start getting random window sizes again after not too long.....

Hope this little lot helps

[mick n]

"1. make sure you only have ONE IE window open, and nothing else. "

Yes, good point. Forgot about that one!

Also another handy thing to remember is that XP will only remember a default of 400 window sizes and when this is exceeded all of your set window sizes will not be remembered, everything will be opened differently to how you set it.

When this happens you need to edit the registry as so.


1: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell NoRoam\BagMRU]

2: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell NoRoam\Bags]

Delete the BagMRU & Bags keys respectively and reboot.

Resize all of your windows.

Another tweak i read somewhere is to increase the default number from 400.

"add the entry "BagMRU Size" and set it to a value greater than 400 that is the default
Go to:-
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell
and add a DWORD called
BagMRU Size
and give it a value of
000003e8
Then go to :-
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell NoRoam
make a DWORD called
BagMRU Size
and give it a value of
000003e8 "
This will increase from 400 to 1000.

Have done both of these tweaks and worked no problem, but as always, back up the registry before tweaking to be on the safe side.
Mick.

[chris-16]

As I experienced myself, the "bad" rememberance is the evil guy in this story.
Suffered both the windowsize problem as the constantly changing folder options.
Changing the BagMRU to 1000 is really the right thing to do.
The method described above didn't function very long, obviously because it isn't complete.
It has to be the both methods (deleting and changing) together.
Somewhere else I found a helpfull registrypatch.
Since I don't know how to make an attachment here,try it as follows:

Open a new textfile (editor) and copy follwing into it:

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell ]
"BagMRU Size"=dword:000003e8

[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell \BagMRU]

[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell \Bags]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell NoRoam]
"BagMRU Size"=dword:000003e8

[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell NoRoam\BagMRU]

[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell NoRoam\Bags]

Now save this and rename to BagMRU.reg
Just merge and the options-memory of Windows will be a lot better!
Good luck!

[ANZAC_ELITE]

right click the programme icon, select properties, shortcut tab, run, select maximise.

Another is to hold down the control key when closing the window (works for most)